House And Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide

House And Garden For A Perfect Match

By Suzzie T Franklin

House and garden always go together. Improvements to the house, may include improvements to the garden in the backyard. You may have updated the house with a beautiful patio, but you may update the garden with a wrought iron fence and a wrought iron gate, to keep pets out of your garden.

You may consider increasing the variety of growing plants in your garden. Plants too have very definite characteristics and the selection of them will certainly influence the overall look of the garden. But the choice of materials must come first when establishing the layout and basic style. Plant like you arrange flowers. Uneven numbers, flow, repeat, with heavier globs of color at the bottom.

Think big for impact and think different, like vegetables for color and textural interest. Plants, I discovered, could be great teachers! This experience opened up new worlds and I became quietly interested not only in growing lots of different plants but also in finding out more about their medicinal and healing properties.

Changes Through The Years

There are so many things that we can do to fill our time. Through the years my hobbies have changed based on what stage in life I am in. When I was in high school I loved to sew. I made many of the clothes that I wore and I also sewed some clothing for my friends.

I made many gifts using my mother’s sewing machine. When I was in college I did not have the time or the space to sew. I started playing racquetball to fill what spare time I had.

As I got older and had a family I did not have the time or the energy for racquetball any more. At that point in my life I was lucky to get everything done that needed to get done so I did not have a great deal of free time.

Neglecting Your House And Garden

Now my children have grown and I have extra time. I found during the years that they were growing up I neglected my house and garden. Decorating and gardening have always been things that I have been interested in but have not taken the time to do.

I started my getting a house and garden magazine. I looked at different decorating ideas for the house and also some great plans for extending your living space into the outdoor area of your home.

Putting Time For The House And Garden

My husband thought that some of the ideas looked quite complicated and that we should hire a gardener to complete the projects. I told him that this would defeat the purpose of me getting involved in putting time in the house and garden.

I went to the large do it yourself home improvement store with my house and garden magazine in tow. I found a helpful knowledgeable clerk and showed them the picture of what I wanted to create in the backyard.

He showed me where all the supplies were that I would need to create the fountain area and path that were shown in the picture. He made some suggestions of alternative materials I could use that would hold up better for our climate.

I was able to get all the supplies in the truck with one trip. My next-door neighbor is retired and loves working in the yard. He helped me unload the supplies and also to stack the area for the path.

Within two days we completed the project and it looked even better than the picture in the magazine. I have taken great pride in the accomplishment and look forward to tackling a new garden project next spring.

Inside The House

Now I am going to try some of the indoor decorating ideas for our living room area and will look at the plantings inside the house.

Plantings generally work well on any color with the exception of certain greens, unless the house color makes the house displeasing on its own. Plants have been grouped in different ’islands’ - each group having different cultural requirements, for example the succulents require less water than the plants grouped in the meadow.

This allows the gardener to indulge in different planting styles, whilst still being able to maintain all the plants in the house and garden to their individual cultural requirements without too much effort.

About the Author:
Suzzie T Franklin has written a number of articles on gardening and landscaping including White Flowers, Fruit Trees, Tole Painting, Lady Slipper Flower, Plastic Flower Pot, Zen Garden, Wire Topiary Frames, Window Bird Feeders, Planting Guide, Flower Seeds, Gardening Vegetable, Cherry Blossom.
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.

Little Known Gardening Facts....

What is the difference between annuals and perennials?
Both are, of course, plants but the difference is in how long they last and how often you have to replant them. Annuals must be replanted every year. Examples of annuals are any type of vegetable, sunflowers and flowers such as violets.

Perennials are plants that will renew themselves. They include trees, bulb plants such as lilies, tulips and include roses and other hardy plants that go dormant that during the winter months. Most ornamental grasses are considered to be perennials.

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